Queere traffic lights for Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: Mayor Clara Herrmann wants to strengthen the visibility of the LGBTIQ*community

Queere traffic lights for Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: Mayor Clara Herrmann wants to strengthen the visibility of the LGBTIQ*community

competition for the traffic light male-queer traffic light couples in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg?

The district mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Clara Herrmann (Greens), would like to introduce Queere traffic lights. Apparently this idea is also well received by the CDU traffic senator Manja Schreiner (45)

Clara Herrmann, the young politician of the Greens, is committed to openness, tolerance and diversity in her district. In order to further improve the visibility of the LGBTIQ*community, she made the Berlin Senate aware of the idea of ​​the queer traffic lights. Your letter does not show whether she wants to introduce the traffic lights permanently or only during the Pride-Week.

As early as 2015, there was such a traffic light in front of the Lichtenberg town hall in Berlin, but only for an hour. In 2020, the SPD also called for the introduction of queer traffic lights, for example on Turmstrasse, Leopoldplatz or Friedrichstrasse.

In contrast, a Munich-based mate against the gay and lesbian Paar: had sued (since 2019) and lost before the administrative court. In the meantime, such traffic lights are hanging in several cities such as Frankfurt, Cologne and Hamburg. Finally, another traffic light of this kind was installed in Darmstadt in June.

in Berlin is the road traffic regulations (§37, paragraph 2, No. 5), since it only speaks of a “symbol of pedestrians” at the traffic light. In the past two decades, however, the so -called traffic light man has been introduced with a hat, which is twice as bright as the earlier slimmer traffic light man from the west. According to experts, it has a larger light outdoor area.

Nevertheless, the CDU traffic senator Manja Schreiner (45) is open to the proposal from Kreuzberg. Your spokeswoman Britta Elm says: "We will be benevolent for next year. It is a charming idea, because the visibility of the LGBTIQ*community is part of in Berlin."